Luxury Design Brands

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Our DNA

NextSpace represents a curated collection of luxury design brands which have a truly authentic story to tell.

Our mission is to develop sales and marketing strategies for brands looking to develop and expand in the Middle East and Africa.

Our intricate knowledge of the local market, strong relationships and networks in the region are our key success, and we ensure that our extensive community of design professionals, operators, developers, contractors, distributors and clients are continuously engaged and supported.

Our insight into the local markets and an established network in the Middle East and Africa are key pillars to our success.

Built on decades of experience in the Middle East and Africa, our vision is to connect people who are passionate about luxury designer brands with a truly authentic story to tell.

Services

Brand Agency

We represent luxury design brands for indoor and outdoor furniture, lighting, custom furniture and objects.

We deliver a variety of standard and custom design furnishing solutions for Luxury Residential, Corporate, Commercial and the Worldwide Hotel Resort and Casino industries.

We focus on the Middle East & African markets.

Project Consultancy

We offer consultation services to brands and design professionals.

Our core strength are our contacts and vast network, and we strategise to connect you with the right people in the industry to close a lucrative project or sign a new prospect.

NextSpace is here to connect you with the right people in the industry and work on a project by project basis.

We offer customized services at various rates to help you close the deal.

Brand Advisory

We formulate strategies for new and existing brands to partner with the best contacts in their respective segment. When looking for the right agency to drive your business within the Middle East & Africa, we can assist you.

NextSpace assists brands looking for a distribution network or a new business partner to gain an overview of the market.

Our team of PR, Publishing and Event collaborators create a personalised

strategy specific to your requirements.

Brands

Cassina

Established in 1927, Cassina has been designing the future for almost a century. During the 50s the company, founded in Meda (Milan) by Cesare and Umberto Cassina, launched industrial design in Italy.
Cassina has always invented and developed new products as well as true experiences, pushing itself beyond ordinary boundaries and defining new standards.

In the rich and complex turmoil of that era, it was pioneering in the way it encouraged architects and designers to envision fresh designs and most of all translate their inspirations into reality.
Cassina identity lies in an innovative fusion that closely links technological skill with traditional craftsmanship.

Lensvelt

Lensvelt is a dedicated, Amsterdam based furniture label. The Lensvelt consumers value a green planet and like to contribute to a healthy, fair and sustainable society. They are culture enthusiasts; with a strong affinity to art, architecture and design. The Lensvelt customer utilizes our products in both a professional as well as personal setting. This philosophy exemplifies their worldly perspectives and their impeccable taste of design.

Indigenus

Indigenus design and manufacture beautiful, durable architectural planters developed to uplift and enhance residential, hospitality and corporate environments. Our original and unique contemporary designs are generated in collaboration with leading designers, architects and artists who have a deep appreciation of the scenic quality of creative planting. The designers understand the impact great sculptural planters can have in an architectural site or landscape.

Omelette-ed

Omelette-Ed is a company that designs, makes, curates and sells furniture and design objects whose contemporary style is characterised by the simplicity of its lines. Clarity and honesty are the main values of this company and can be seen in all the designs they produce. The aim is to offer a new perspective on design by taking a close, human and familiar approach to everyday objects.

Potocco

Italian creativity, artisan tradition and international vocation are the distinctive traits of Potocco, a family-run company that has been studying and creating furniture for indoor and outdoor environments for almost a century.

Founded in 1919 by Domenico Potocco in Manzano (UD), as a small artisan workshop for the production of chairs, Potocco has evolved over the years into a large industrial reality, specialized in the production of home and contract furnishings, suitable for both indoor and outdoor environments.

A history of excellence that covers the entire 20th century, along a trail of growth which, from our participation to the first Salone del Mobile trade fair as a founding partner, has led Potocco to collaborate with important international design firms and achieve for itself an important role in the Made in Italy story of excellence.

Tidelli

A leading manufacturer of In & Out furniture with unique products that confer elegance and luxury to any room. Twenty five years ago Tidelli has brought comfort to the corporate segment. Mounting tailored, environmentally responsible, concerned about preserving the environment and using recyclable materials such as aluminum and plastic. Quality and beauty, present in the best hotels, resorts and other enterprises.

Wiid Design

Laurie Wiid van Heerden established his studio, Wiid Design, in Cape Town in 2013. Often working collaboratively with other artists and across a wide variety of materials, Laurie’s product range spans furniture, lighting, tableware and collectible objects that combine specialist manufacturing with handcrafting.

The studio has become well-known for its innovative use of cork in high-end product design, architecture and large-scale production manufacturing. Recognised as an African “ambassador” for cork by Portuguese producer Amorim, Laurie has pushed the boundaries of the material to achieve a number of world “firsts” – including the world’s largest cork pendant light and cork cabinet, both of which have been exhibited by Southern Guild.

Laurie Wiid’s work comes from a conceptual and artistic environment, an angle on various topics of contemporary culture, with a focus on traditional handcrafting in combination with avant-garde techniques. By combining handcrafting and specialist techniques, Wiid transforms materials into life-enriching and durable objet d’art.

Born in Cape Town in 1987, Laurie opted for a hands-on approach to studying design and manufacturing. He apprenticed to Otto du Plessis and Charles Haupt at Bronze Age Foundry as well as to a carpenter for three years, and from 2009 to 2013 he worked closely with leading South African sculptor Wim Botha as his assistant. During this time, he started designing and manufacturing his own ceramics and furniture and collaborating with fellow creatives.

The first in his ongoing series of one-off benches, Untitled (After W.B.), is based on the techniques he learned while working for Botha. A tribute to his mentor and an exploration of Laurie’s love for working with timber, the carefully constructed bench seat comprises of a number of faceted and angular planes that form a controlled point or climax.

True to his polymathic approach to manufacturing, Laurie has since gone on to design a number of other benches in various materials, including terrazzo, Finnish Birch ply, concrete, salvaged antique timber beams, and mild steel finished with automotive paint. He has collaborated with the artist Lionel Smit and designer / illustrator Atang Tshikare on the latter and has enjoyed a long-running working relationship with Ceramic Matters to produce lavishly glazed tiled furniture.

Laurie won the Maker to Market Award At the 2013 Design Foundation Awards for his strong understanding of the value of brand-building and identity, marketing, consumer interaction and packaging. He won the Conde Nast House & Garden Award for production excellence in South African design at 100% Design South Africa in 2014 and the Best Lighting Design Award at the same event a year later. He was also recognized by the Arts & Culture Trust with its ImpACT Award in 2015 and by BRAVE / Rock Girl, a charity organisation, with the 2017 Brave Award for his support of its work to create safe spaces for girls. In 2019 Laurie in collaboration with Ceramic Matters won the Best Lighting Design Award at 100% Design South Africa. He has exhibited at 100% Design in London, Design Days Dubai, Design Miami/ Basel and Design Miami.

Sancal

Sancal was born under the Spanish sun some forty years ago, and remain there to this day.
Our Spanish identity: passionate, open, joyful yet humble is captured in every design. We are our proud of our artisans and would not dream of outsourcing our carefully crafted pieces to foreign sweat shops.
Our love for our roots naturally extends to the environment. Our
factory is nestled amongst the mountains in the south east of the country. We produce our own electricity, and comply with ISO14000, but above all we reject the dictates of throw away consumerism, carefully producing pieces that are designed to pass the test of time.
Just like a painter, we are happiest when we are at work, creating. Over the past few years this authenticity has become highly appreciated, catapulting the firm to one of prominence in Spain

Sovet

Sovet was born at the end of the ‘80s to explore the expression possibilities of glass in the contemporary furnishing. Since the beginning of the years 2000 it starts the collaboration with important international designers and introduces other materials alongside glass, widening its perspective under the sign of creativity and continuous evolution.

From “New shapes for glass” to “New shapes for design”, in the last 30 years the company has undergone a constant growth, transforming itself from a company identified with glass to an internationally successful 360-degree design company, with new solutions both for home and contract environment which combine minimalism and an accurate materials selection.

The creative use of industrial processes, the use of raw materials of absolute quality and the scrupulous work of master craftsmen, allow Sovet to create high quality and 100% Made in Italy collections. Thanks to state-of- the-art industrial automation systems, Sovet is able to meet also large supply needs for contract spaces, always granting the highest quality standards.

The company takes a continuous search path for materials, to create an offer of accessories complementing one another, furnishing different kinds of environments with the
maximum customization possibility.

Bivaq

Bivaq was founded in 2003 in Barcelona (Spain) by a young entrepreneur and a small team of committed professionals. Since the beginning their goal was to create, innovate and launch outdoor collections that broke the standard tendencies, but at the same time outstood due to its comfort and quality. From its headquarters in Barcelona and manufacturing plant in Tarragona (Spain), Bivaq designs, develops and manufactures all its contemporary outdoor furniture.

SHORE Rugs

SHORE is a design brand pioneering the field of ergonomic rugs and soft furnishings for home, work, and fitness. We believe a rug can be both beautiful and exceptionally functional. Synchronizing rigorous material research with an innovative craft approach, we create highly sophisticated products of surprising beauty and usefulness that are equally at home in high- end interiors, fitness studios, on pool side decks, and in offices and work spaces. We believe that the spaces we occupy and the objects we own should be more than just beautiful and well made, they should aid us in becoming our best selves.
Our signature product, Shore RugsTM, engender wellbeing through a uniquely luxurious experience of health, comfort, and craftsmanship. With their unique deep weave structure, created entirely by hand and woven by skilled artisans in our London workshop, Shore Rugs provide cushioned support and a textured, dynamic surface. To step upon a Shore Rug is to experience a pleasant, massage-like sensation on account of the product’s pure (completely non-toxic) silicone. The same intersection of aesthetic appeal and durable performance means Shore Rugs work effortlessly within any imaginable space - residential, commercial and hospitality. Useful anywhere, Shore RugsTM are waterproof, UV and fire resistant, hypoallergenic, vegan, easy to clean, and extremely durable.

FLOS

The beginnings of Flos (meaning “flower” in Latin) blossomed from a brilliant idea: to create objects, starting with a light bulb, that would change the way of life for both the Italian market and the foreign markets.

Dino Gavina and the small Eisenkeil manufacturing facility in Merano, had already been creating furniture alongside design masters such as Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Afra and Tobia Scarpa. But by the early ‘60s, Gavina became convinced the time had come to create new lamps.

Using the same technology – conceived in the USA and tested at Eisenkeil – used for the Cocoon lampthe Castiglioni brothers and the Scarpa duo began creating lamps such as the Taraxacum or the Fantasma, with many other beautiful and surprising lamps to follow.

And so, from day one, Flos was already reinventing the idea of artificial lighting.

Kettal

Since its beginnings in 1966, Kettal has had an international calling to design and innovation. In the first years of the 21st century, Kettal acquired the brands, Hugonet y Triconfort, which came together to form Kettal Group.
Kettal works with the most important names in the international design scene including Patricia Urquiola, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Rodolfo Dordoni, Doshi Levien, Hella Jongerlius, Jasper Morrison, Michel Charlot or Emiliana Design studio. who collectively have contributed to what is a well rounded, innovative and unique collection.

Klove

Klove are designers and manufacturers of impressive custom lighting and objects.
Klove was founded in September 2005, by Prateek Jain and Gautam Seth. Their mutual love for travelling allows them to immerse themselves in the elemental forces that mould life’s creative force into countless shapes and forms.

The very name – Klove – is immersed in instinct. It is so called because the partners in business and adventure liked the sound of it; and it is hard to like something that does not resonate with the potent energy of instincts and emotions. All Klove creations are an ode to the innate synchrony in nature, the secrets of metaphysics hiding in plain sight; and the unconditional repository of nourishment, healing and learning within alternative spiritual methodologies.

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Associates

Esra Lemmens

Esra Lemmens is a Design Strategist at her namesake, The Esra Lemmens Agency. Esra Lemmens build her career on discretion and focuses on empowering contemporary Designers, Artists and their brands across the globe accomplishing clear business objectives. Nowadays she represents the biggest names in the industry and is the thriving force behind many successful collaborations with major companies.

Her background in Arts and Design enhance her ability to connect with her clients and bring their optimal visions to fruition. She represents them in a unique way, both customized and optimized through her collaborations with studios, platforms, events, labels, museums, galleries and other resources applicable to the goals at hand.

Esra Lemmens Agency

Founder and director of the Esra Lemmens Agency, she is an influential personality in the design community because of her deep understanding and knowledge regarding concepts, history and business perspectives of design. She is established as an ambassador for contemporary design, and this has enhanced her award-winning leadership skills. Her expertise in design management and design communication also bring something more to the table. Her impactful talents such as strategy building, and organization capability are a result of her all-encompassing encounters with key players in the design industry.

Esra Lemmens Gallery

The one-of-its-kind gallery showcases collectible design and functional art by both established and rising, international designers and artists, who do not believe in taking a conventional route and go beyond the traditional territories of expression.

The Esra Lemmens Gallery identifies and advances these key narratives intersecting contemporary design, visual and conceptual art. The gallery derives inspiration from the couture models of vertical integration that includes three steps –creation, production, and retail. It brings an ambitious collection that supports current tendencies relevant to the development of global contemporary design. It sets a foundation for the growing key voices in the industry as one of its core activities moving widely around the world, creating a catalog that reflects the most innovative scenes from the Middle East to Europe, Asia, and America.

Patricia Millns frsa

Patricia Millns FRSA is an artist, advisor, patron and mentor. Studied Fine Arts, Honours MA Art and Design History.

Studio based in Middle East for 40 years. Practice based on researching on woman’s studies relating to the cultural significance of adornment and olfactory heritage of Middle East. Advisor on art and design projects.. Mentor for emerging artists. Presently advising on the Creative Industries.

She is an elected Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts, London, Advisory boards of American University of Dubai (AUD), Zay Initiative board and member of IAPA, UNESCO

Patricia has represented UK at United Nations (UN) New York, Sharjah and Cairo Biennials. Public Collections include United Nations UNIFEM, British Museum, British Council, British Commonwealth Society, and the Royal Windsor, Bulgari, Salsali, Sainsbury collections. Work in National Museum Collections regionally.

Represented in private collections locally and internationally

+97150 344 6959

www.patriciamillns.com @patriciamillns

Our Team

A message from our Founder, Laurence Dehlen

& The Managing Partners'.

Together with our business partners, we decided to create a company that would showcase well established brands, as well as creating a platform where new and innovative brands can effectively engage with the regional design community.

At NextSpace, we believe there are many brands that are yet to be discovered and elevated to the next level.

As partners' we have been privileged to travel around the world extensively over the past 25 years; and have been drawn to beautiful interiors, architecture and exquisite brands. We understand the unique characteristics of our brands as well as the countries they represent.

Living in the Middle East, our partners' have the opportunity to meet with people from all over the world and have developed a vast network of contacts and been privileged to work on some of the most iconic projects within the hospitality and luxury real estate industry.

We are proud to be associated with a portfolio of curated luxury brands and our dynamic team of sales, marketing and associates allows us to forge a new way of doing business.

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